Let there be no doubt, A. Barry Rand is a self made man who should be proud of his many accomplishments in life. He also is a man with what some would call a race based agenda.  His entire career seems to have focused on efforts aimed at inclusion for minorities.  He was raised in a segregated America, his ideology shaped during the early days of the civil rights movement...which has to beg the question, is his own agenda clouding his ability to make decisions that are in the BEST INTERESTS of AARP's members?

Barry Rand's entire career has focused on INCLUSION, providing minorities with a chance at the proverbial brass ring as it were.  This is a noble goal, a noble cause, but has he carried that Black Community goal with him to AARP, and in doing so lost track of what AARP's core goals and positions should be?  This would explain AARP's odd blanket support of Barack Obama's socialist health care plan, would explain AARP's joining forces with Nancy Pelosi to sell the concept of Universal Health Care to the American public during the Congressional August recess. 

When Rand came on board, AARP said about him in a press release,  Rand is “a catalyst for social change and inclusion in the workplace.”

There is no problem with Rand being a catalyst for social change and inclusion in the AARP work place, and in fact I would support his efforts toward that goal.  However, when he sells out our membership, embraces a Baby Boomer genocide in the name of inclusion in the Health Care System, I have a problem with that.  AARP's mandate is taking care of, and lobbying for those of us who have started on that end life path known as the Golden Years, its goal is not righting the social wrongs he perceives to exist as a Black Man who grew up in a segregated America all those years ago.

Perhaps Barry Rand, Howard University (a historically Black College) board chairman, the man who has spent his entire life fighting for inclusion needs to take a few weeks off to study his own motives in taking over the helm of AARP, needs to look at his agenda for the organization, and decide if that agenda has been shaped and altered to fit his own desires and motives of inclusion, or is the agenda that AARP's membership wants it to be....my quess, is that being honest, Barry Rand will admit he is the wrong person for this job, and should resign effective immediately so that someone can take the helm that will protect the rights of those of us who are over fifty, rather than carrying out a wrong sighted personal inclusion agenda at the wrong time in history for AARP, and 75 million Baby Boomers.